[A rare and severe complication of meningeal hemorrhage: spinal arachnoiditis with paraplegia].
This observation relates a case of spinal arachnoiditis with paraplegia, for a 56 year old patient hospitalized for a S.A.H. by a ruptured aneurysm of the P.I.C.A. This patient present some complications, requiring a prolonged ventilatory support with a tracheostomy, a ventricular shunt for hydrocephalus. The treatment is only surgical, and the corticosteroids delay the evolution, but without successful outcome.
Jourdan
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C
Service d'anesthésie et réanimation, Hôpital neurologique P. Wertheimer, Lyon.
Artru
F
F
Convert
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J
Ottolese
C
C
Chiara
Y
Y
Naous
H
H
Tixier
S
S
Terrier
A
A
D001100:Arachnoiditis / Q000150:complications / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007796:Laminectomy; D008875:Middle Aged; D010264:Paraplegia / Q000209:etiology; D013345:Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / Q000150:complications*; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae
Complication rare et grave de l'hémorragie méningée: arachnoidite dorsale avec paraplégie.